Mental wellbeing, for
organizations who care
about their people.
A private space for self-reflection and an AI that provides reliable information grounded in expert knowledge. Our wellbeing data insights build self-awareness and performance, and help organizations allocate resources wisely and step in early, before things get worse.
Privacy by design
On-device anonymization and local-first architecture. Ethical data collection, with a clear overview of what's shared with friends, coaches and sport psychologists.
Read more →Always learning
Built on research from top-level institutions like ETH Zürich and the University of Zurich, we make a commitment to keep validating our technology and product with ongoing research effort.
Read more →Safety-focused AI
We build safeguard pipelines for self-harm, suicidality and psychosis that perform better than any end-user product on the market.
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A safe space,
available 24/7.
Self-work guided by AI, reliable information, community. Supporting, not replacing, human connection.
A unified app for wellbeing & performance
Track your mood and tiredness, and share with your community for mutual support.
AI support
An evidence-based self-reflection chatbot, with information-retrieval technology that surfaces accurate, expert-grounded knowledge for each user.
Community
Close friends, shared support and moments in Safespace become reminders of your achievements, and of the people in your corner.
Four-pillar blueprint
for wellbeing.
First B2B platform for wellbeing at 360°, built by scientists, backed by real research. Our KPIs focus on wellbeing and prevention, not AI addiction.
A four-pillar blueprint
for wellbeing.
Self-work, community, wellbeing and performance, four interlocking layers that turn mental wellbeing into something measurable, supportable and scalable across an entire organization.
Mental bio-markers, ethical AI.
Wellbeing index built from passive bio-markers, language, audio, keystroke, spatial. Combined with self-monitoring it flags early signs of distress and lowers drop-out risk; combined with the physical signals athletes already track, it gives a measurable view of performance for tailored routines. We train our models on external datasets and only test their quality in passthrough, and when users choose to donate data, they can visualise the anonymization before anything is shared.
The AI chatbot.
A state-of-the-art AI chatbot with proprietary state-machine, memory-layers, safety-pipeline and information-retrieval technology.
- State-machine, bio-marker-based classifiers balance tone and style to what each user needs.
- Memory-layers, context length isn't the bottleneck; information gets lost in the middle. Our memory system cuts cost and sharpens retrieval of the user details that matter most.
- Safety-pipeline, our safeguards reach the highest precision and recall of any end-user product on the market, stress-tested against self-harm, suicidality, psychosis and adversarial inputs.
- Two-step hybrid nano-graph RAG, when athletes ask for advice, answers are grounded in expert content rather than training data, with 10× fewer hallucinations than GPT or Claude. Clients can update and add the content their athletes receive, avoiding the pitfalls of similarity-only retrieval. Our two-step procedure lets the system self-improve and shows clients the quality of answers without ever accessing personal information. Provide your own content knowledge, or tailor our baseline below.
Data-driven decisions, safeguarding users.
Users keep full control over what is shared with their coaches, sport psychologists and organizations. Chatbot conversations are never shared, stored on device and anonymized before they reach our servers. Based on user feedback we recommend the default setup below, where the sport psychologist is bound by confidentiality, adjusted to the number of athletes and the organization's support structure.
- Aggregated wellbeing reports. A clearer overview for smarter resource allocation.
- Topic map. Aggregated anonymous themes by timeframe (e.g. body image is up), plus themes to add to the content knowledge athletes ask for.
- Mismatch flag. When self-report and bio-markers diverge, early-stage prevention at the individual level.
- Team wellbeing index. Wellbeing markers with history, for the teams.
- Current team mood & tiredness. Overall, at team and individual level.
- Team wellbeing index. Bio-markers aggregated at team level, with history, to better tailor training to events, season and more.
A tailored circle of close friends.
Each athlete's support system looks different, inside or outside the team. Shared milestones, normalized low days, encouragement from friends and reminders of past achievements. When you share something on Safespace, or support a friend, their Safespace brings that support back to them on the low days.
Built for
organizations that raise
healthy champions.
We partner with sport organizations to raise their athletes' performance and bring mental wellbeing support to every athlete in their care, including the ones who don't get personal coaches or 24/7 attention today.
"We don't have resources to support each single youth athlete." Federation feedback
"Even top athletes don't have coaches 24/7, or on the road." Olympic committee feedback
Federations & Olympic Committees
Organizations responsible for whole athlete cohorts, from youth to elite, with a mission to foster wellbeing through sport.
Sponsor Brands
Brands committed to athlete wellbeing as part of long-term partnerships, and to nurturing their growing youth athletes.
Clubs
Clubs scaling mental support to every athlete in their care, building thriving communities.
Pro athletes
Pro athletes often lack year-round support, and many report feeling alone with the mental side of their sport. Safespace gives them a private space to reflect and receive reliable advice, on the road and between sessions, while their coaches and sport psychologists act on the data insights. Combined with physical performance data, those insights power tailored routines and next-level performance protocols.
Youth & academies
The most fragile stretch of an athletic career, many youth athletes drop out after years of formation. We help federations spot warning signs early, safeguard their investment, and help young athletes feel less alone on their path.
Adaptive & neurodiverse
Built accessibility-first. The app and the AI are designed to include athletes who are rarely served by standard mental health tools, whether through tailored content knowledge or through safeguards and structures tuned to how a neurodiverse brain works.
Social impact communities
The work we do to support elite athletes extends to the social-impact communities our clients support, from local sport centers to low-income countries.
What we have learned from athletes
in our ongoing survey.
These numbers are why we're building Safespace.
Embedded in the
research, innovation
and tech ecosystem.
Experts and builders.
A team spanning behavioral and data science, accessibility, responsible AI, psychology and sport.
Matteo Pinna, PhD
CEO · Behavioral & data science
ETH Zürich
Spun Safespace out of his PhD at ETH Zürich in behavioral and data science. His personal story of late-diagnosed neurodivergence drives him every day to improve mental wellbeing support. His research has been published in leading journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, Political Analysis, JMIR Formative Research and Nature's Scientific Reports, and featured by The Atlantic, The New York Times, Washington Post, Vox and MSNBC. His statistical programs are used by more than 200,000 people as of June 2026. Off the clock, Matteo climbs rock, mountaineers and snowboards.
Oriane Pierrès, PhD
Human-AI UX & accessibility
University of Zurich
An interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich working across AI in education, digital accessibility, disability studies, AI ethics and human-computer interaction. At Safespace she pairs peer support with responsible AI to close the gaps in existing mental-health ecosystems, centering minoritized and underserved communities and bridging research and implementation, so AI assistants are designed inclusively in higher education and high-performance sport alike. Published in venues including IEEE Access, Education and Information Technologies, Learned Publishing and the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics & Society.
Prof Dr Dr Nala
CFluffO
Chief Fluffiness Officer
Holds two honorary degrees and lectures on techniques for high-output fluffiness, for maximum employment performance and wellbeing. In her free time she enjoys bathing in shallow water, sniffing things, and showing love by making sure no trace of food is ever left on your fingers.
Petra Klingler
Swiss Olympian
Bouldering World Champion
Swiss Olympian, rock & ice climber and Bouldering World Champion. Brings the elite-athlete perspective and connects Safespace to the high-performance athlete network. Petra raised the mental challenges athletes face early on, advocating for a real support system. In her free time she boulders, skis, cooks and bakes.
Prof Elliott Ash
Scientific advisor
ETH Zürich · ETH AI Center
Professor at ETH Zürich and the ETH AI Center. Advises on scientific methodology, causal inference, machine learning for social impact and responsible AI development. In his free time he plays the drums, spends time with his kids and digs into the latest AI-frontier discoveries.
Timon Elmer, PhD
Psychology advisor
University of Zurich
PhD in psychology at the University of Zurich. Advises on psychological interventions and supports rigorous impact studies of Safespace's technology, particularly chatbot-based interventions and social-network effects on wellbeing. In his free time he enjoys the outdoors and music.
Let's talk.
Federation, academy or sponsor brand, we'd love to help you support your athletes.
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